étape

[ ey-tap; French ey-tap ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Military.

, plural é·tapes [ey-, taps, ey-, tap].

Origin of étape¹

< French; Middle French estaple < Middle Dutch stapel warehouse; staple ²

Ce mot ne te dit rien: dans le filon de la grande carrière médicale, c'est une étape nécessaire.

It was snowing hard now––a perfect geography scene, lacking only the 13 wolves; but the étape was only half finished.

It was the rest house at the end of the étape––a tiny, distant speck on the snowy plain.

Mais il revint, et nous fîmes encore une bonne étape de vie intellectuelle, morale et philosophique.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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